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TIL courts can order Vaccinating of a child Over the Parents’ wishes during a outbreak

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WD68 TIL In 1964, the inventor Karl Kroyer once filled a sunken ship with 27 million plastic balls to make it lighter and easy to remove. He then tried to patent the idea but failed as examiner found the same method used by Donald duck in a comic book in 1949, 15 years before.
grmDD TIL the Ball corporation, famous for their mason jars, became a defense manufacturer in aerospace engineering. Their products have been used on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the James Webb Space Telescope among other projects. They no longer directly produce glass jars.
OGbMR TIL Tuberculosis is listed as the oldest contagious disease to affect humans by the Guinness World Records
06RR TIL Iceland overthrew their government and rewrote their constitution after the 2008 financial crisis.
1aj84 TIL that Samoans are 40 times more likely to make it to the NFL than an average Non-Samoan American.